Noémie Lvovsky

Noémie Lvovsky (; born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.

She is best known for directing Camille Rewinds and Life Doesn't Scare Me, and for her roles in My Wife Is an Actress, House of Tolerance, Summertime, and Actrices.

She has received numerous awards including a Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film, Cannes Film Festival – Directors' Fortnight – SACD Prize, and French Cineaste of the Year at Cannes Film Festival among others. She has been nominated for 13 César Awards in Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Actress, She studied cinema at La Fémis in Paris. Her first two films cast Emmanuelle Devos, who was then at the beginning of her career.

She is the actress with most nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, with seven nominations: in 2002 for My Wife Is an Actress, in 2006 for Backstage, in 2008 for Actrices, in 2010 for The French Kissers, in 2012 for House of Pleasures, in 2016 for Summertime and in 2021 for How to Be a Good Wife. Her film Sentiments was nominated for the César Award for Best Film in 2004.

Her film Camille redouble was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix SACD.

She was named as one of the jury members for the Cinéfondation and short film sections of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

As actress Films

Television Year Title Role Notes 2009 À deux c'est plus facile TV movie 2010 Le meilleur ami de l'homme Chantal TV movie 2011 Bouquet final The owner TV movie 2015 Ainsi soient-ils Jeanne Valadon TV series (7 episodes) 2017 Loulou The mother TV series (1 episode) Paris etc Madeleine Zand TV series (5 episodes) 2018 Nox Elisabeth Sereny TV mini-series Les impatientes Maude Girard TV mini-series 2020 Si tu vois ma mère Monique TV movie La Flamme Patricia TV series (1 episode) 2023 Sambre Arlette Caruso TV series (1 episode)

As filmmaker

Year Title Credited as NotesDirectorScreenwriter 1986 La Belle Short film 1987 Une visite Short film 1989 Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non Short film 1990 Embrasse-moi Short film 1992 The Sentinel Also as casting director 1994 Oublie-moi 1996 The Phantom Heart 1996 Clubbed to Death (Lola) 1997 Les Années Lycée: Petites Telefilm 1999 Life Doesn't Scare Me 2003 It's Easier for a Camel... 2003 Feelings 2007 Actrices 2007 Let's Dance 2012 Camille Rewinds 2013 A Castle in Italy 2015 Les Trois Sœurs Telefilm 2016 Demain et tous les autres jours 2018 The Summer House 2022 Forever Young 2023 La grande magie

Awards And Nominations Festival of Film SchoolsJury Award